Oh wait, they write shit.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~imcfadyen/notthenet/fantasy.htmAnd that's how they do it.
I got a new toy today:
(EDIT: It's done, so here's the full spec instead of the truncated PROM monitor output)
# hinv
4 800 MHZ IP35 Processors
CPU: MIPS R16000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.2
FPU: MIPS R16010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.2
Main memory size: 4096 Mbytes
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 8 Mbytes
Integral SCSI controller 2: Version IDE (ATA/ATAPI) IOC4
CDROM: unit 0 on SCSI controller 2
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty3
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty4
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty5
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty6
Integral Gigabit Ethernet: tg0, module 001c01, PCI bus 1 slot 4
IOC3/IOC4 external interrupts: 1
I love me some roboinst. Building a new box is editing a couple files and running a command from the PROM/L1 Monitor.